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Considering the actors, there must be five different conspiracy theories for this act.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36680899
mark46th
07-01-2016, 08:55
Probably a Chicom provocateur trying to start the conflict that would allow the mainland to invade...
Badger52
07-01-2016, 11:27
Bill Murray's calling someone to get a screenplay done RFN.
Team Sergeant
07-01-2016, 12:37
Considering the actors, there must be five different conspiracy theories for this act.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36680899
The Ultimate AD
For an old guy you have a very short memory......... :munchin
The forgotten story of Iran Air Flight 655
If you walked into any high school classroom in the United States and asked the students to describe their country's relationship with Iran, you'd probably hear words like "enemy" and "threat," maybe "distrust" and "nuclear." But ask them what the number 655 has to do with it, and you'd be met with silence.
Try the same thing in an Iranian classroom, asking about the United States, and you'd probably hear some of the same words. Mention the number 655, though, it's a safe bet that at least a few of the students would immediately know what you were talking about.
The number, 655, is a flight number: Iran Air 655. If you've never heard of it, you're far from alone. But you should know the story if you want to better understand why the United States and Iran so badly distrust one another and why it will be so difficult to strike a nuclear deal, as they're attempting to do at a summit in Switzerland this week.
The story of Iran Air 655 begins, like so much of the U.S.-Iran struggle, with the 1979 Islamic revolution. When Iraq invaded Iran the following year, the United States supported Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein against the two countries' mutual Iranian enemy. The war dragged on for eight awful years, claiming perhaps a million lives.
Toward the end of the war, on July 3, 1988, a U.S. Navy ship called the Vincennes was exchanging fire with small Iranian ships in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. Navy kept ships there, and still does, to protect oil trade routes. As the American and Iranian ships skirmished, Iran Air Flight 655 took off from nearby Bandar Abbas International Airport, bound for Dubai. The airport was used by both civilian and military aircraft. The Vincennes mistook the lumbering Airbus A300 civilian airliner for a much smaller and faster F-14 fighter jet, perhaps in the heat of battle or perhaps because the flight allegedly did not identify itself. It fired two surface-to-air missiles, killing all 290 passengers and crew members on board.
cont:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/16/the-forgotten-story-of-iran-air-flight-655/
Divemaster
07-01-2016, 15:35
Who remembers this one?
http://nyti.ms/29aZU4p
The New York Times
U.S. Missiles Hit Turkish Ship, Killing 5
By ERIC SCHMITT,
Published: October 2, 1992
WASHINGTON, Friday, Oct. 2— At least 5 Turkish sailors were killed and 15 injured early today when a United States warship accidentally fired two missiles and hit a Turkish destroyer during a NATO exercise in the Aegean Sea, the Pentagon said tonight.
Team Sergeant
07-01-2016, 15:45
Who remembers this one?
http://nyti.ms/29aZU4p
The New York Times
U.S. Missiles Hit Turkish Ship, Killing 5
By ERIC SCHMITT,
Published: October 2, 1992
WASHINGTON, Friday, Oct. 2— At least 5 Turkish sailors were killed and 15 injured early today when a United States warship accidentally fired two missiles and hit a Turkish destroyer during a NATO exercise in the Aegean Sea, the Pentagon said tonight.
Yup, an AD alright. Can you imagine the Turks watching that inbound missile.......
"allah will protect us!" (or not)
Divemaster
07-01-2016, 15:53
Yup, an AD alright. Can you imagine the Turks watching that inbound missile.......
"allah will protect us!" (or not)
Or watching two missiles inbound.
I knew a former junior Navy officer who was on the U.S. ship when this happened. His group had just fixed something and the instant they turned it on, the missiles launched. For a few moments they thought they had caused the missiles to go (it wasn't them).
Badger52
07-01-2016, 15:55
But you should know the story if you want to better understand why the United States and Iran so badly distrust one another and why it will be so difficult to strike a nuclear deal, as they're attempting to do at a summit in Switzerland this week.Yet here we are...
:rolleyes:
That reporter clearly underestimated what could be traded that assuages such things in Teheran.
Team Sergeant
07-01-2016, 21:01
Or watching two missiles inbound.
I knew a former junior Navy officer who was on the U.S. ship when this happened. His group had just fixed something and the instant they turned it on, the missiles launched. For a few moments they thought they had caused the missiles to go (it wasn't them).
LOLOLOL, and in the next moment he shat his pants......:D
Divemaster
07-01-2016, 21:49
LOLOLOL, and in the next moment he shat his pants......:D
Pretty much.